Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Alan J. Perlis

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- author unknown (quoted in `Robust Systems', Gerald Jay Suseman)

I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the former isn't already scarce. -- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free. -- Linus Torvalds

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at. –Jesse Owens

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~George Bernard Shaw

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey